For 27 years, the symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems has been a traditional forum for researchers and practitioners who are interested in distributed systems design and
development, particularly with properties such as reliability, availability, safety, security, and real time.

We welcome original research papers as well as papers that deal with design, development and experimental results of operational systems. We are also soliciting papers for an
experience track that present on-going industrial projects, prototype systems and exploratory or emerging applications, etc.

Topics of Interest
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The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, dependability, security and/or real-time aspects within the following topics:

* Autonomic, pervasive, ubiquitous and diffuse computing
* High performance and Grid systems
* Web Services
* High-confidence systems
* Critical infrastructures
* Distributed embedded systems
* Parallel and distributed operating systems
* Distributed objects and middleware systems
* Sensor networks and wireless ad-hoc networks
* Event-based and Peer-to-Peer infrastructures
* Distributed databases and transaction processing
* Distributed multimedia systems
* Electronic commerce and enabling technologies
* Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing
* Analytical or experimental evaluations of dependable distributed systems
* Fault-tolerant distributed algorithms
* Internet-based systems and applications
* QoS control and assessment